Deployment
Gel Cloud: The easiest way to run Gel
Gel Cloud is the official hosted service managed by the Gel team, offering the simplest and most reliable way to run Gel in production. While self-hosting is possible (as shown in these guides), Gel Cloud provides a seamlessly integrated experience with perfect compatibility between local development and production environments. It includes a generous free tier, Vercel and GitHub (deploy previews work out of the box), a hosted UI, and using it directly supports the development of Gel itself!
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Gel can be hosted on all major cloud hosting platforms. The guides below demonstrate how to spin up both a managed PostgreSQL instance and a container running Gel in Docker.
Minimum requirements
As a rule of thumb, the Gel Docker container requires 1GB RAM! Images with insufficient RAM may experience unexpected issues during startup.
